TELEGRAM TO ALL GUBERNIA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES, GUBERNIA PARTY COMMITTEES, GUBERNIA TRADE UNION COUNCILS, GUBERNIA LABOUR COMMITTEES

Published:First published in 1933 in LeninMiscellany XXIII.

      Printed from a typewritten text signed by Lenin.Source:Lenin
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      Progress Publishers,1976,

      Moscow,Volume 45,

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October 10, 1921

Underthe influence of the food supply situation in the
Donbas, which was aggravated last May-July, tens of
thousands of workers have abandoned the pits and havedispersed, some of them beyond the boundaries of the area.
The flight is especially strong among coal-hewers, whose
numbers dropped from 16,000 to 10,000 in August, and also
among skilled boiler-men. The food supply situation in
the Donbas has now been stabilised, namely, a three months’
supply of grain has been delivered and is to be increased.
I propose that you start extensive agitation for a return
to the pits of the underground workers who have left
Donbas, namely, coal-hewers, sledders, timberers, drillers,
drifters, haulers, and also boiler-men and machinists. No need
to send workers others than those in the stated categories.
In conducting agitation explain:
1) full provision of grain;
2) introduction of new rules of payment in food and cash
by productivity, and abolition of levelling issues of food
and money; 3) on the return of the workers largely depends
the success of the food campaign in the Ukraine, which
had been slowed down by a shortage of fuel for food
transportation.

LeninChairman,
C.L.D.[1]

[1]Thetelegram is also signed by V. M. Molotov, Secretary of the
R.C.P.(B.) Central Committee.—Ed.